The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02
Sherman's Boom.

tial boom quite boost at Springfield, ILL.,,
last night He is very active candidate,
and the indications are that he does not in
tend TO permit Mr. Blaine to carry off the
Republican Presidential nomination with
out sharp contest. Mr.. Blaine is now
somewhat alarmed about his physical condi-
ton, and he goes to Europe with the hope
of improving it. If this hope is realized he
will return early in the fall with the pur-
pose, doubtless, of making an activecanvass
for the nomination.
Mr.. Sherman doesn't need any vacation.
Although seven years older than Mr.. Blaine,
he is as tough as pine knot, and capable
of doing vast amount of work without
showing the effects of it.
When he spoke at Nashville, Tenn, a few
weeks ago he had very little to say about
frauds on the ballot box in the South. His
talk was almost wholly about the necessity
for protective tariff At Springfield last
night, however, he waved the bloody shirt
vigorously, and said that if it had not been
for the unfair election methods at the South
Blaine would now be President
1t seems remarkably strange that Mr..
Sherman and other Republican leaders will
keep on repeating the unfounded statements
respecting tissue ballots, false returns, in
timidation and ballot-box stuffing in the
South without producing any proof in sup
port of them. If they were required to do
SO they could not point to a single county in
the South where there was not free and
fair expression Of opinion through the ballot
i 1.
whole argument is this: The negroes are
all Republicans In some of the South
ern States the negro voters, together with
the white Republicans, outnumber the Dem
ocratic voters That no Southern State was
carried by the Republicans is proof that
there was not a free ballot and a fair
count
Now, the assumption that all the negroes
| are Republicans, or that they all offered to
vote is incorrect. 1t is a very well-known fact
that comparatively few of the negroes voted
at the last Presidential election. There was
no opposition to their voting anywhere and
it is safe to say that the great majority of
| them didn't care to vote. Mr.. Sherman,
| however, thinks that it will assist him in
reaching the Presidency by asserting at the
North that they did, and that they were
prevented by fraud and intimidation. 1t is
certainly time that the truth about South
ern affairs was told. 1t is hardly to be ex-
| pected, however, that an ally of Eliza
| Pinkston will have much regard for the
| truth where it is to his interest not to have.
| Mr.. Sherman played the part of dema-
gogue in two respects last night. He pointed
to the Presidents pension vetoes as evidence
that the Democratic party is hostile to the
soldier element, and he said that the Presi-
| dent vetoed the river and harbor bill be-
cause the Democratic party is opposed to in
ternal improvements, and because it con-
tanned an appropriation for the Hennepin
| canal scheme. The truth is, the ex-Union
| soldiers have no better friend than the Presi-
dent His pension veto messages have
| greatly strengthened him throughout the
country. The people honor him for his veto
| of the dependent pension bill.
| 1t is true he vetoed the river and harbor
| bill, but Mr. Sherman seems to forget that
| President Arthur vetoed bill Of the same
sort Judged by the vetoes of river and
| harbor bills, therefore, the Democratic
| party is just as much in favor of internal
improvements as the Republican party is.
| The reference to the Hennipin canal was
| for effect in Illinois
| MIR. Sherman's speeches ought not to be
| criticised from the standpoint of truth. He
| is working for great prize and is trying to
please everybody that is in position to be
of the slightest use to him. As shrewd a
wire-puller and as untiring worker as he
| is, however, the chances are that the prize
| will not be won by him.